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7. A structure of logs to be anchored
with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc.

8. A small raft of timber.
[Canada]

9. A small theft; anything purloined; a
plagiarism; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student
in preparing or reciting his lessons. [Colloq.]

The Latin version technically called a
crib.

Ld. Lytton.

Occasional perusal of the Pagan writers, assisted
by a crib.

Wilkie Collins.

10. A miner's luncheon. [Cant]
Raymond.

11. (Card Playing) The discarded
cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in
cribbage.

Crib, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Cribbed (kr&ibreve;bd); p. pr. & vb.
n. Cribbing.] 1. To shut up
or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.

If only the vital energy be not cribbed or
cramped.

I. Taylor.

Now I am cabin'd, cribbed, confined.

Shak.

2. To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal
from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib
a line from Milton.


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